Re: Subordinate clauses
| From: | Jonathan Knibb <j_knibb@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 17, 2004, 16:16 |
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Philippe Caquant wrote:
>Le type que j'ai vu, son chien était vert.
>J'ai vu un type, son chien était vert.
>Le type que j'ai vu, là, vert qu'il était, son chien.
Wonderful -- this is exactly the sort of natlang behaviour
(or should I say natlang *speaker* behaviour?) that I'd love
to get far enough with a conlang to emulate.
At the risk of starting YA-French-syntax-T, may I ask how
our resident French experts would analyse the third
example? If one interprets the "qu'" five words back from
the end as signalling a relative clause (as in 'que j'ai vu'),
then 'vert qu'il etait' appears to be an adjective phrase
putting itself forward as a sentence ... an odd situation.
Jonathan.
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